AMERICAN SOCIALISM?

Right. There is none. Not even a whiff. The far-right sees it in their imaginations. They need to find out what it is. They attack those with the slightest lean to the left of the center as socialists. They are against a government that could preserve the freedoms they enjoy if strengthened. 

Yet we need the control elements of socialist thinking that FDR set in motion. Reagan duped the nation and conditioned the right for a cult mentality, creating a gulf between the haves and the have-nots. Demigods can now fool the generations brought up in the broken educational system into believing that freedom is antisocial. Socialism is the straw man the cult members view as the left-wing enemy.  Properly defined, it is the very thing they need.

We need stronger laws to protect democracy, freedoms, and rights, including the right to work, freedom from the poison of religion, progressive redistribution of wealth, guaranteed health services, and minimum living standards for workers and the retired. We need to take care of people as we do in the military. We need all leaders to take an empathy test and pledge if elected. We need our thought leaders to oversee and intervene in our educational system, devoting a paid month a year to truth and reality disclosure.

The American experiment is doomed. We are in our last days.  After man-made climate change fails to decimate society, religion will devour the species with its poison.